Sunday, February 27, 2005

Hotel Buffet - Plaza Parkroyal

Mummy recommended Plaza Parkroyal Hotel's buffet the other time so we're bringing 2 of my friends Steve and Erica to try....





For those who duno where it is... well, its near beach road... Mum and my da yee are kinda regulars there.. haha..

heres the food they served for today...





that's not it....





sharks fins soup is not bad..


and sashimi...





they haf the octopus, salmon n sword fish.. but they din haf Steve's fav maguro!


and they haf drunken prawns... first time im having drunken prawns for buffet...





the soup was quite good!


according to my mama, they are quite famous for their prata... especially their durian prata... Erica n i dun eat durians.. but Steve upon one mouthful.... he went like "WOW... POWER" haha.. i couldnt resist n i actually tried... eh.. lets just say i duno how to appreciate durian...





they make the prata on the spot and the haf several different prata flavours... roti prata with durian, roti prata with banana, prata with sardines, roti prata with egg and plain roti prata. Steve and Erica both think their prata is very good....


n den for dessert, aside from cakes and fruits (which i din manage to take pics of coz we were too full to eat)... there was ice cream and ice kacang...





den it was coffee time... aside from a coffee maker.. they also had cappuccino maker!





ok la.. maybe u think im sua ku.. but i think its interesting!


Each person was around $27+++. UOB card holders get a 20% discount.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Cafe - Breko

Been yearning for Breko's baked potato.

There wasnt much of a crowd probably coz it was a sunday.

Remember i said Breko has a similar concept to cartel? well, i forgot to add dat breko is also cheapo.... they dun provide u with paper and pencil to take down ur order. The one who's ordering just has to have super mega memory to remember everyone's order when they get to the counter. For me, i used my fone.. i keyed in all the number codes on my hp.. and the first time round, coz dean was playing with my fone, it got erased! hhahahahaha.. not dean's fault is cheapo breko's fault!! n dat gave Steve an idea.. business idea.. maybe we should invent technology to order food via sms.. oki.. u can go work on this idea... but dun forget the idea is mine. whahahahhaa...


anyways.. this is them browsing the menu trying to decide what to order..





and in the end we ordered based on my memory... power leh? coz we did order quite a no. of items!






the orders came pretty fast especially the drinks and the baked potato. When the server came with the snow white, he went " Snow White? " and i replied " here here " and we all had a good luff! He meant to ask whose order it was and i meant to say it was my order... but it sounded like he was looking for snow white and i was telling him im snow white! get it? hahhahaa...


The cream cheese potato was more like thick cubes of sour cream, very dry. The chicken sausage one was not bad but i tink i personally like potato with butter. The egg mayo one was the best amongst the 3. The fried scallops were good.. chicken nuggets were special, different from the usual type. The brownie with ice cream is very very disappointing! It wasnt served warm.. the brownie wasnt nice, even ice cream was lousy... The patty buger was ok, not bad but i personally din like the bbq sauce but dean liked it. The sirloin steak's mash potato was good.. cause it was with black pepper sauce.. yum~ We had ALOT of potato! lol.. My grill-a-chick, i specially requested for it to be w/o the bbq sauce, learnt from my previous experience! It was great! very value for money! I had like 3 big pieces of chicken thighs! YuuuuummMMMM!


oh.. the brownie was so bad we couldn't finish it!





see? it looks so untouched. its really bad!!


we wanted frizzy drinks but the only frizzy drink dat breko offers is.... diet coke -_- so we had to get from 7-11 big gulp..

Friday, February 18, 2005

Brazilian - Brazil Churrascaria

Yes! Brazil Churrascaria! Finally! Received lotsa recommendations and reviews about this place. Located at sixth avenue.

Luckily i had made reservations. When i got there, the restaurant was pretty filled already.


I was brought to my table...





My friend Jeffrey, was late. While waiting for jeffrey, i was surveying the place...







I realised the restaurant did have alot of foreign customers. Servers were walking around with skewers of meat and ham with the aroma of the seasonings flashed past me, it was torturous! haha.. how i wish Jeffrey would appear right away so that we can start digging in.


Being my first time there, i didn't know how the whole thing works. One of the servers explained to me that with the plate on our table, we can proceed to the salad bar...





for the salad.... while servers will come round with the meat to serve us.


Finally Jeffrey got here! As soon as Jeffrey arrived, we were first served a dish of cheese bread or was it called cheese balls? hee.. cant remember.





it was accompanied with 3 condiments to go along with it. First one you see in brown is a little like cai por dat u get from the local chui kueh. The second is tomato paste and the last one is mixed vege. The cheese balls are quite nice but i couldn't wait to attack the salad bar! hehe...


this is my first helping to the salad bar...





n the truth is, its also my only helping. Coz after that, the servers just kept coming back to serve us adding onto my plate, different varieties of meat!





From chicken to lamb to sausages to pork ribs to beef ribs to beef tenderloin to chicken hearts to beef slices to fish to ham to... (dats all i can recall for now)... look at my plate...





oki.. i koe it probably looks abit messy here dat it might not look very very yummy to u.. but IT IS VERY YUMMY!!


oki... after they changed my plate, my second attempt to take a pic to show u a nicer plate of the meats...





VERY NICE!! oh yes.. n the pineapple, VERY SWEET!! Im still drooling looking at these pics now...


The meat are all very tasty... especially the chicken. I duno how to describe the taste... its like the taste is just very nicely wrapped inside the chicken and the juice will just ooze out at the very bite. The fish is abit like tom yam taste which i din really fancy. I dun take mutton actually but i tried a piece. I shant comment since i dun like mutton but Jeffrey said its very nice. The rest of the meat were all nice but my favourite was the thin beef slice! It was simply WONDERFUL!!!





ahhh.. i wana go back!!!!


oh.. Jeffrey also ordered one of their cocktail.. cant remember the name...





it does taste quite good.. got abit of mango and cant remember what fruit in it.


These are some snapshots i took of Jeffrey during dinner...





Had a great time wif jeffrey, catching up and stuff. He did complain about the venue of Brazil but after the food came, he did agree dat its a good recommendation. Oh.. n Jeffrey misses Modestos too. haha..


We had such a full dinner... the bill came up to only about $94. I had expected it to be much more expensive. If i recall correctly, the menu wrote that the buffet is $37+++, the salad buffet is $24+++.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Prata - Spize - with mum

Had arranged to meet up for dinner wif Erica, Steve and icy at Spize - river valley. Mum joined us too. haha..


realised dat Spize changed their menu design...





for a pic of their previous menu, refer here.


we ordered alot of food... especially mum, afraid dat everyone is not eating enuff. She ordered onion rings and satay to share on top of her black pepper chicken steak...





The black pepper chicken steak was good! the nasi ayam thingy dat Steve ordered was very good as well! Erica complained of her bee hoon gorong ikan bilies being too salty but hee.. i like it! (coz its salty!) LOL

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Russian - Shashlik

after sch i met up with Steve. He agreed to go Shashlik with me! Its a very old Russian restaurant.





I told him all about the wonderful recommendations of the steak over there. He was just as excited.. hehe.. I got all the recommendations from a forum and knowing dat Steve can be pretty particular about service, i fore-warned him that the people have said dat the service will be lousy.


Shashlik is located at Far East Shopping Centre, level 6. When we got there, we were so disappointed........ we saw....





huh? Closed? HOW CAN????? *disappointed*


Just when we were moving closer to check it out, we saw the light for RESTAURANT light up and den the light for SHASHLIK lighted up.. *theres still hope*...


we went closer to the door and saw alot of ah pek servers inside and the sign on the door read..





Ooo... it was only 6.20 pm.. *phew*... By 6.30 pm, we were the first customers to enter. But we were not the only ones.. there was another group dat was previously waiting outside the door with us and another group came shortly after.


On the wall, we saw lotsa frames of awards...





dat got our expectations higher!


On one side of the restaurant, theres this balcony like area with plants all over. Like a little garden.





The restaurant's interior looked old with dimly lit candles and antique lightnings (wow.. romantic!).


n heres the menu...





eh.. i koe kinda small to read... u want the big picture, ask me for it. hee..


and like the forum people said, most of the servers were rather elderly...





n indeed... service isnt wonderful but its not lousy la..


after our orders, one of the uncles came around with his basket of buns and gave us a bun each. I dun really like buns so after Steve had his bun and he said it was nice, i gave him mine.





(actually i tink the bun is very normal only =x)


den our soup arrived. Almost everytime they serve a dish, they'll be pushing this trolley to either seperate the soup or.. remove skewers etc...





This is the server pouring the soup into seperate bowls from the small pot.


I had Borshch whilst Steve had Fresh Oyster soup (oooo.. horny horny eh? LOL)





My Borshch came with a little sour cream by the side. Its the clear soup type with cabbages and a slice of beef. The soup was ok, not bad but the beef was GOOD! The fresh oyster soup was.. hmm.. very oyster-ish loh. haha.... but special coz we've never tried anything like it before.


den came our long awaited steak!!





When the steak just came, we were all eager to try..





when i asked Steve " What do you think? " His reply was " i only know i wana quickly put it inside my mouth " hahahhaha


Eh.. the russian salad is abit crap in my view.. its just normal salad .. tastes just ok. The Sirloin Steak serving was big and done according to request. You know how exasperating it is when you order a medium steak only to get a overdone and tough one... or when u order a medium rare one just in case it gets too cooked and they give u a super bloody one. This one was nicely done. It was w/o any sauce. After trying the sirloin, honestly i wasnt super impressed. I mean of coz it doesnt taste lousy but its not heavenly. Probably above average? and Steve had to add chilli sauce .. haha. But my Beef Shashlik was much much much nicer!! hahaha... Likewise it was sauceless but the seasoning they used was stronger den the sirloin steak. Thumbsup!


We tried very hard to take pics of us with the food but it wasnt successful..





haha.. still only our face.. nvm..

After the steak we were actually pretty full but i wasnt willing to just go.. hee.. forum also recommended the desserts! The baked Alaska was said to be very nice also but it wasnt available so under the uncle's recommendation, we went for Bliny with Brandy Butter Sauce.


n to our amazement, uncle came with his trolley again... this time with a frying pan!





Yes yes.. uncle cooked the thing right infront of us... wow...





the finished product... if u ask me if its nice.... erm... it has a strong alcoholic taste.. hmm.. it doesnt taste spectacular to me.. it was alright. but den the cooking was spectacular. So haha... it made us feel dat its special.


After the uncle was done with the Bliny, he asked us if we wanted coffee or tea... Steve asked for coffee.. and while we were having our dessert before his coffee came, we jokingly wondered if the uncle would come again with the trolley again and tarik the coffee! hhahahhahaha...


when the uncle did come again with the coffee on the trolley, we cracked into laughter... firstly was coz of the tarik joke and secondly was cos initially the uncle poured the coffee into the cup which was a very small cup...





can u see how small the cup is? we though that it was just such a small cup of coffee... hahahahhaa... its actually a whole pot.. see the silver pot beside the coffee? lol


By the time we kinda finished dinner it was around 7.30 pm but the restaurant is actually around 90% full already.





Wow.. i mean, its Far East Shopping Centre we're talking about here, not Far East Plaza. And its at level 6. So ulu right? But its actually pretty crowded and today is wednesday. But the crowd is observed to be pretty old.


The overall dinner cost about $90 odd.

Friday, February 04, 2005

Dim Sum - Wan Tou Shek

supper time!


we went over to geylang's Wan Tou Shek for dim sum.. we have always sat on the outside and never actually realised dat they have an air conditioned area until today...





and as soon as we sat down, Steve was commenting about how good it was to sit inside... its cooling with aircon and...





he could share with us his rich knowledge of fish!


There was this fish tank behind where we were seated....





well.. the fishes here look much more comfy den the ones from crystal jade! ( Refer here )


our drinks came first... we love their chrysanthemum tea!





They're served in these kinda plastic bowl containers.


we were deciding on what to order and dean was hungry... he wanted sumthing dat would come fast...






guess what it is?





hahahaha....


While we were ordering.... Steve did the ordering and as usual he was siao kianing the aunty taking order... he managed to coax the aunty until she was so happy...





aunty even joked back dat we can eat for free! WOW.. Steve is aunty killer neh!! lol...


not just Steve.. dean as well..







hahhaha.. oki... this din happen la.. i just pieced 3 of their pics together and created the conversation myself. The last pic Steve was hiding his face coz he din wana be taken.. he was worried dat i'll make him popular again... hahhaa...


this was what he really said...





Steve.. mine is low budget leh.. but i love u as much as i love sylvester!! hee...


I think Deanie is becoming another celebrity as well..







hahhahaa... oki.. the hmmf one was added in by me but the arm chio part did happen.. lol... Dean's not very good with chinese.. lol...


n scrolling thru the menu, we saw this...





haha.. Hong Kong Small Small Meat Bun was the direct translation of the chinese name on the menu... so we were teasing that this meat bun is only so so small... lol


This is my fav dish over there... shiong fish head...





and so we ordered....







3 serving of the shiong fish head! n check out the fresh oyster bun! sounds funny right?





this is the interior of the bun.. taste was funny also.. we were not used to having oysters in the bun. oOysters are known to be.. ( i forgot the name of the term ) the type of food dat makes u horny or get higher sex drive after eating? kekekkee...


wana see the effect?





hahahha....


and this Levine, initially when we got there, she was insistant abt not eating...





haha.. but i actually caught her secretly sipping my chrysanthemum tea!





n siew mai!! lol...


and she took this pic of me while i was eating...





alamak!! so ugly!! But i think it probably made the food look very appetising to her... or maybe it made me look very appetising to her....





see how shes actually trying to lick me!! eeeeee!! LOL....


oki oki.. a more proper pic...





n while we were all pretty full already, Steve went to order a loh mai gai... n when it came, the way he used the chopsticks to divide it looked rather suggestive... lol...


The disclaimer above still applies oki!!





lol.. dun ask me what's CCB. Go figure it out urself. lol...


and dean who wanted to try the rice of the loh mai gai actually said : " i dun want the mai gai.. i only want the loh " HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHA.. dat cracked all of us up!!


Loh mai = glutinous, gai = chicken. Mai gai is not a word... haha..





so Steve was teasingly educating dean about loh mai gai..


As a condition for me to agree to come along for supper, they agreed to help me rub rub my back... Levine was my offical massager.. den Dean came along to suggest dat i use...





chopsticks! lol..


the char siew bao was also a last minute order by dean and Erica... when actually most of us were actually very full and i simply refused to help eat the char siew bao..





hahhaa.. look at how poor thing they look when they try to stuff the char siew buns down... must finish oki!! People at war torn and tsunami affected areas dunch haf enuff to eat.. we cannot waste food!





n so we did not....


despite being a no clubbing night, i only got home around 2.30 am!